I'm almost 100% certain he didn't have sex now.
House arrest for juveniles can mean three things here:
1) The strictist is thru the detention center when a kid is allowed to return home after an arrest but is put on a certain program (not all allowed to return home are put on this program) and they put an ankle bracelet on/gps and it is monitored 24/7 by one of the guards at the detention center. Parents have to call a couple of days ahead of time to ask permission to take the kid anywhere- grocery shopping so they can stay supervised, the dr, etc. The kid is allowed/required to go to school but no social events or family time outside of the house. They also have people come by unexpectly about 3 times a week. Thru any of this- if the kid is not where he's supposed to be, someone is sent right away to pick him up and the permission to remain free before trial is revoked.
2) The next is thru probation (not parole)- and the kid is put on an ankle bracelet with a monitor but it isn't watched 24/7. The kid goes to school and if the parent wants/needs to take the kid somewhere, they just call and leave a message with the probation officer that they are taking the kid wherever. The probation officer gets emails from someone (??)) if the kid has left the zone of the monitor and maybe where the gps was (not sure) but the probation officer can verify those times with the parent's message so they know the kid wasn't out in the middle of the night or whatever. It would be a violation of probation and handled however that person decided.
3) The third, and least strict, can be either by a probation officer or parole officer. And it's just verbal. Sometimes they allow the parent to take the kid places; sometimes they don't. They always have let me take difficult child simply because I'm a single parent and with his age and charges over the past few years, we all feel more comfortable with him going places with me versus staying at home alone. And they go to school. On parole, it's up to the PO whether or not to violate the kid- obviously they can't let infractions go on too long or be major. But, if it's an official parole violation, it has to back to the judge, which means court.
On probation, I don't think that's the case. But it might depend- probation is ordered for one of two situations- either it's the first or second offense for a kid who's never been sent to Department of Juvenile Justice and the judge orders probation for a year- if the kid does everything he's supposed to, when they go back to court at the end of the year, those charges are dropped. The other way- being put on probation is part of the punishment and can last until the kid is no longer a juvenile. The PO in that case "monitors" (keeps track of) the juvenile's progress and completion of any other court order the judge issued at sentencing plus the PO can order more if they want and can take the juvenile back to the judge if the kid isn't doing good enough. If the kid is arrested again while on probation, the judge gives a lot of weight to the PO's recommendations. difficult child had been on probation under the second scenario and reoffended, and then was sent to Department of Juvenile Justice.
Parole is for kids who have been committed to Department of Juvenile Justice but have been released from Department of Juvenile Justice custody (a state juvenile prison), meaning the kid still "belongs" (for lack of better term) to Department of Juvenile Justice but is no longer incarcerated. On one hand, the parole officer is supposed to help get services to help transition the kid back to mainstream living, but on the other hand, the parole officer has to keep track of how well the kid is doing- are they adjusting, are they on the right track for continued progress, are they still re-offending, etc. The idea is to help the kid transition and prevent a re-incarceration- this appears to be more important to them when it's a juvenile because it looks pretty bad when the kid comes home worse than when he went in and it also looks bad if he they send him home because he was supposedly rehabilitated but he's not, and it looks bad when this is the punishment the state officials decided will help the kid but they really made his future worse. At least, this is the way it appears to me. They seem to care a whole lot more about difficult child doing well on parole than they did about him doing well while on probation. (If they cared more about getting better probation officers, they could prevent a lot of committals to Department of Juvenile Justice though.) And- there is a light at the end of the tunnel. difficult child could be off parole in 6-9 mos if he does well- it depends on the level of parole they are assigned and I don't remember the exact terms but difficult child's was in the middle.
I'm sure that was a lot more info than you wanted to know. I wish I didn't know it.